Orographic

by OCEANALLOVER

Orographic is a site responsive performance fusing otherworldly choreography, live music and carnival couture design inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s landscape paintings and humankind’s relationship to mountains.

2018 marked 150 years since the birth of the founding father of the ‘Glasgow’ style. Orographic takes direct inspiration from the abstract lines, shapes and cartography that Rennie Mackintosh used to communicate the mountains and hillsides in his paintings as well as spectacular land masses in Scotland.

During these visually capitivating performances audiences are invited to consider the awe we experience when faced with a mountainous structure and the human desire throughout history to conquer such edifices.

Originally commissioned as part of the European Championships Cultural Programme 2018.

Oceanallover are a visual theatre performance company based in South West Scotland led by Artistic Director Alex Rigg. They make outdoor performance for site-specific locations and perform in both urban and remote landscapes. Their work is visually arresting and philosophically stimulating making use of original and innovative costume design, gripping theatricality and evocative music to create emotional and memorable performance events. The company put particular emphasis on live music and visceral dance theatre.

PRESS

“Beautiful and provocative site-specific work…humane, funny and ethereal, touching and eccentric.” The Skinny ★★★★

credits

Design and Direction: Alex Rigg
Collaborative Artists: Guy Veale, Joey Sanderson, Lewis Sherlock, Laini Chrismas, Philip Alexander Macdonald, Jen Cunningham, Dylan Read, Breezy Elthalion, Richard Merchant, Roger Marsh, Ross McRae, Catherine Carter, Anders Rigg, Peter Tagg
Producers: Feral (Jill Smith and Kathryn Boyle)
Costume Fabrication: Alex Rigg, Hilary Ross, Laini Chrismas, Sarah Keast, Hazel Keast, Kirstin Bleasdale, Mary Griffin, Fern Strang
Other Collaborative Artists and Thinkers: Dougie Strang, Dave Borthwick, Robin Rigg, Florencia Garcia Chafuen

Partners and Funders: Creative Scotland, Glasgow Life – European Championships 2018, Dumfries & Galloway Unlimited, The Holywood Trust, Slovak Wildlife Society, South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project, The Touring Network, Crawick Multiverse Trust, Orkney Islands Council, Upland, Angus Balbernie, The Stove Network and Blueprint100

TOUR HISTORY

Orographic toured to the following locations across 2018 and 2019:

Merchant City Festival, Glasgow Green and Kelvingrove Art Gallery (Glasgow)
Strathclyde Country Park (Lanarkshire)
Balloch Country Park (West Dunbartonshire)
Orkney Science Festival (Hoy and Stromess, Orkney)
Mill on the Fleet (Galloway)
The Stove (Dumfries)
Greenock Waterfront with Beacon Arts Centre (Greenock)
Muiravonside Country Park with Falkirk Community Trust (Falkirk)
Dunnet Forest with Lyth Arts Centre (Caithness)
Little Assynt with Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape (Lochinver)
Portree Harbour Front with Aros Community Theatre (Isle of Skye)
Brodick Castle, Garden and Country Park with Arran Theatre and Arts Trust (Isle of Arran)